Bug#545675: grub-pc --configure fails on linux-image-2.6.30-1-686

[Jan Rasche]

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Felix Zielcke wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 09.09.2009, 11:57 +0200 schrieb Jan Rasche:
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>> Hi  Grub-pc Maintainers,
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>> I had found  Felix Zielcke's post here:
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http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists.debian.org/msg686387.html
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>> <cite>
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>> Check with `ls -l /dev/mapper/' if the files there are real devices or
>> symlinks to /dev/dm-?
>> If they're symlinks then this is #542435 which is actually caused by an
>> upstream dmsetup change: #542422
>> Though that has been fixed now but it seems like for some people just
>> upgrading the package and rebooting doestn't solve the problem.
>> In that case run `echo change > /sys/block/dm-?/uevent'
>> Replace the ? with every /dev/dm-* device you have.
>>
>> </cite>
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>> But the issue is not solved this way (unstable is freshest - I did
>> what above suggested) or maybe not related to dmsetup.
>>
>> l /dev/mapper/
>> insgesamt 0
>> crw-rw----  1 root root  10, 60  9. Sep 11:36 control
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root       7  9. Sep 11:36 vg-lv--root -> ../dm-0
>> brw-rw----  1 root disk 253,  2  9. Sep 11:36 vg-lv--swap
>> drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120  9. Sep 11:36 ./
>> brw-rw----  1 root disk 253,  1  9. Sep 11:36 vg-lv--tmp
>> drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    5300  9. Sep 11:37 ../
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>> vg-lv--root -> ../dm-0
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>> is still linked this way, but only under 2.6.30 not under 2.6.29, so
>> it seems somehow Kernel related.
>>
>> Best regard, Jan
>
> Oh that gives me an idea I totally didn't think about with the other
> reports.
> Your initrd maybe was created with that buggy dmsetup udev rule instead
> of the fixed one.
> `update-initramfs -c -t -k all' and a reboot should fix this if that's
> the case.
>
>
Hi Felix,

You are great! :-)

The new initrd cleaned the issue.

l /dev/mapper/
insgesamt 0
crw-rw----  1 root root  10, 60  9. Sep 12:14 control
brw-rw----  1 root root 253,  0  9. Sep 12:14 vg-lv--root
brw-rw----  1 root disk 253,  2  9. Sep 12:14 vg-lv--swap
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root     120  9. Sep 12:14 ./
brw-rw----  1 root disk 253,  1  9. Sep 12:14 vg-lv--tmp
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root    5300  9. Sep 12:15 ../

uname -a
Linux xcomm 2.6.30-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Aug 15 19:11:58 UTC 2009 i686
GNU/Linux

Best regards, Jan

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